Nicole: You know how everyone’s always saying seize the moment? I don’t know, I’m kind of thinking it’s the other way around. You know, like You know how everyone’s always saying seize the moment? I don’t know, I’m kind of thinking it’s the other way around. You know, like the moment seizes us.

[talking to Madame D.’s corpse]M. Gustave: I don’t know what sort of cream they’ve put on you down at the morgue, but I want some. Honestly, you look better than you have in years. You look like you’re alive.

Martin Luther King Jr.: Our lives are not fully lived if we’re not willing to die for those we love, for what we believe.

Martin Luther King Jr.: I’m no different than anybody else, but I’ll not be focusing on what I want today. I’m focused on what God wants.

[giving a speech]Martin Luther King Jr.: It is unacceptable that they use their power to keep us voiceless!

[giving a speech]Martin Luther King Jr.: As long as I am unable to exercise my constitutional right to vote, I do not have command of my own life. I cannot determine my own destiny for it is determined for me by people who would rather see me suffer than succeed! Those that have gone before us say, no more!Crowd: No more!Martin Luther King Jr.: No more!Crowd: No more!Martin Luther King Jr.: That means protest! That means march! That means disturb the peace! That means death! That means risk! And that is hard! [the crowd cheers]Martin Luther King Jr.: But we are not willing to put up with that any longer! Give us the vote! [the crowd cheers in agreement]Man in Crowd: That’s right. No more.Martin Luther King Jr.: We’re not asking where the line be. Give us the vote!Crowd: Give us the vote!

Martin Luther King Jr.: They’re gonna ruin me so they can ruin this movement. Rev. Ralph Abernathy: Eyes on the prize, boy.

Martin Luther King Jr.: We must March! We Must Stand up!

The Theory of Everything (2014)

Stephen Hawking: There should be no boundary to human endeavor. We are all different. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there is life, there is hope.

[to young Louis]Young Pete Zamperini: You keep going the way you’re going, you’ll end up as a bum on the street. You train, you fight harder than those other guys and you win. If you take it you can make it. You can do this, Louis. You just gotta believe you can. Pop does, Ma does, I do.

[after being stranded drifting on a draft in the ocean]Francis ‘Mac’ McNamara: We’re gonna die out here.Louis Zamperini: We’re not dying!

Louis Zamperini: So you think there’s some kind of grand plan? Why did we live when the others didn’t?

[to the other prisoners of war]Mutsushiro Watanabe: You are enemies of Japan. You will be treated accordingly. [Watanabe notices Louis staring at him, he walks over to Louis]Mutsushiro Watanabe: Look at me. [Louis looks at him]Mutsushiro Watanabe: Look me in the eye. [suddenly Watanabe smacks Louis over the head]Mutsushiro Watanabe: Don’t look at me.

[to the other prisoners of war]Mutsushiro Watanabe: This man must be taught respect. Each prisoner will teach him this lesson.

Louis Zamperini: I want to kill ’em.John Fitzgerald: Then they shoot you.Louis Zamperini: I don’t give a damn. Let ’em shoot me.John Fitzgerald: That’s not how we beat ’em. We beat ’em by making it to the end of the war alive. That’s how we do it. That’s our revenge.Louis Zamperini: If I can take it I can make it.John Fitzgerald: Precisely.Louis Zamperini: My brother Pete used to say that. He used to think that I could do anything. He used to think that I was better than I am.John Fitzgerald: Who says you’re not?

Louis Zamperini: I swear, I’ll get through this.

[to Louis]Radio Tokyo Man: In America they say Zamperini dead. They tell your family you died in war. NBC Radio tell America. Famous Olympic runner Zamperini is dead. You want to tell family you are not dead?Mutsushiro Watanabe: These gentlemen, they are from Radio Tokyo.Radio Tokyo Man: We have program go all over world. It is named “Postman Calls.” [mocking Louis by pretending to talk into the radio microphone]Mutsushiro Watanabe: Hello, mother. Your son is calling you. Mother, I love you. I’m alive and well. [Louis just looks at him, Watanabe motions for the guard to take Louis]

[talking into the radio]Louis Zamperini: [voice over] Hello, mother and father. This is your loving son Louis. This will the first time in two years that you’ll have heard from me. I’m uninjured and in good health. I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Your loving son, Louis.

[talking into the radio]Louis Zamperini: [voice over] Hello, mother and father. This is your Louis talking. This will be the first time in two years that you will have heard my voice. I’m now in a Tokyo prisoner of war camp. I am being treated as well as can be expected under war time conditions.

Whiplash (2014)

Terence Fletcher: There are no two words in the English language more harmful than “good job.”